After eye-opening exhibits on Tracey Emin and Hew Locke and fresh, expansive looks at J.M.W. Turner and William Blake in the ...
Statecraft and art have a long and storied history, down to the very foundations of the modern state. The Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt famously showed in The State as a Work of Art that the ...
Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, company officials ...
"At its peak, the Mughal Empire stretched from Kabul in the northwest and covered most of the South Asian subcontinent. Descendants of Timur (Tamerlane), the Mughal emperors ruled over the land from ...
In 1964, the British painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) traveled to India, accompanied by a curator of Indian art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Hodgkin had been interested in Indian ...
Taxonomist and curator H.J. Noltie’s new work at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London sheds light on the lives of the ‘Company ...
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FROM the days of medieval manuscript illuminators to the dawn of the 18th century, Britons relied mainly on foreigners for their art. Then, in a great burst of cultural enthusiasm, the demand ...
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